Naga leaders, after a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Monday, hinted at a temporary suspension of their 65-day-old blockade of two national highways in the Northeast.

Pakistan, ravaged by infighting and match-fixing allegations, will look to turn a corner against a formidable Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup opener at the Rangiri Dambulla Stadium. Speedster Shoaib Akthar and batsman Shoaib Malik return to the squad, providing the team with experience.

As part of passage naval exercises with southeast Asian countries, including Singapore, the Indian Navy despatched two of its Dornier maritime reconnaissance aircraft to Singapore on Monday. The aircraft, which will operate from Singapore till June 18, will fly over the south China sea in a “coordinated patrol” with four Indian Navy ships, naval sources said on Monday. The despatch of the two Dornier aircraft is intended to demonstrate the “reach” of the Indian Navy as part of the exercises.

US-based IT firm Intelligroup would be acqu-ired by Japanese IT firm NTT Data Corp for $199 million (Rs 924 crore).
Intelligroup is an enterprise applications systems integrator headquartered in India in Hyderabad.

Over 42 people were feared drowned as a boat carrying them capsized in river Ganga in Ballia district on Monday.
The incident took place at Ojhwalia ghat in Haldi area of Ballia district.

The wholesale price inflation, a measure of rising costs, rose to 10.16 per cent in May due to high food and fuel prices. With inflation crossing the double digit figure, it is expected to put pressure on government to delay any decontrol of fuel prices.

The Congress on Monday put the BJP in the dock asking the saffron party to explain what steps were taken by the NDA government to extradite Warren Anderson.
“The BJP should explain why its then solicitor-general Soli Sorabjee gave one opinion in 2001 and then subsequently backtracked to say that Warren Anderson could not be extradited, based on the legal opinion obtained by the NDA government from a American law firm,” party spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan said.

Mahindra Satyam on Monday said it has sought three months more from the Company Law Board (CLB) for filing its restated accounts.
This is the second extension being sought by the scam-hit company. The restated accounts were supposed to have been filed by June 30, but the latest move will postpone the filing till September 30.

The mining baron, Mr Gali Janardhan Reddy, got a breather from the AP high court which on Monday stayed all further proceedings on a probe ordered by the Centre into the alleged illegal mining operations of Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC).

The Congress is gearing up for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls at a time when the ruling Janata Dal (U)-BJP combine is feeling uncomfortable and thus losing its killer instinct, while the RJD-LJP combine is not in a position to emerge as an alternative to chief minister Nitish Kumar.